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Documents of the First International. Vol. I-V

by: Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U.

Publication date: 1974
Topics: International Working Men’s Association, First International, IWMA, L’association Internationale Des Travailleurs, London Conference, working-class movement in Germany, Karl Marx, Paris Section, Hermann Jung, Ernest Jones, Industrial Newspaper Company, Geneva Congress, L’Echo de Verviers, George Grey, Fenian Prisoners, Brussels Congress, trade unions, International Alliance of Socialist Democracy, l’alliance internationale de la democratie socialiste, Belgian Massacres, Right of Inheritance, Land and Labour League, Международное Товарищество Рабочих, Mainz Congress, Frederick Engels, Franco-Prussian War, Ausschuss Der Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterparteiб Volksstaat, Jules Favre, Spectator, Сергей Нечаев, Sergey Nechayev, Agrarian Question, Saragossa Congress, American split, French Section of 1871, Frankfurter Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Proletario Italiano, Giuseppe Boriani, Gazzettino Rosa, Paris Commune, Hague congress, Rimini Conference, history of European socialism
Collection: manuals_contributions; manuals
Language: English
Item Size: 2.1G

Volume I. 1864-1866

Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1974. — 472 p.

This volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from its foundation in 1864 up to August 1866, together with Minutes of the London Conference of September 1865, and Documents issued by the General Council up to August 1866. Subsequent volumes will contain the Council’s Minutes and other Documents in the ensuing years of the life of the I.W.M.A. This entire collection of Documents of the First International has been prepared by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to mark the Centenary of the foundation of the International.

Contents

Preface

The Minute Book of the General Council of the International Working's Men Association (October 5, 1864 — August 21, 1866)

The London Conference of the International Working Men’s Association (September 25-29, 1865)

Meeting of the Standing Committee, September 25
Sitting of the Conference, September 25
Meeting of the Standing Committee, September 26
Meeting of the Conference, September 26
Sitting of the Conference, September 27
Meeting of the Standing Committee, September 29

Report on the working-class movement in Germany

From the Manuscripts of Karl Marx

Karl Marx. Draft for a Report to the General Council, January 24, 1865
Karl Marx. Notes Concerning the Conflict in the Paris Section
Karl Marx. Memorandum to Hermann Jung Apropos of the Conflict in the Paris Section
Karl Marx. Note to Hermann Jung Apropos of Ernest Jones’s Letter to the General Council Meeting, March 21, 1865
Karl Marx. Notes for the Report on Wages, Price and Profit
Minutes of General Council Meeting Recorded by Karl Marx, January 16, 1866
Karl Marx. Inaugural Address of the Working Men’s International Association
Karl Marx. Provisional Rules of the Association
Karl Marx. Berichtigung (Correction)
Karl Marx. Address from the Working Men’s International Association to President Johnson
To Trade, Friendly, or Any Working Men’s Societies
To the Working Men of Great Britain and Ireland
The Industrial Newspaper Company (Limited)
International Working Men’s Association (Programme of the London Conference)
International Working Men’s Association (Programme of Second Soirée)
To the People of the United States of America
International Working Men’s Association (Appeal in Connection with the Geneva Congress)
Monsieur le Redacteur de L’Echo de Verviers (To the Editor of L’Echo de Verviers)
The Irish State Prisoners. Sir George Grey and the International Working Men’s Association
Karl Marx. Warnung (A Warning)
Aux etudiants de Paris, aux etudiants et aux jeunes hommes de tous les pays — les ouvriers de tous pays (To the Paris Students, to the Students and Young People of All Countries from the Workers of All Countries)
Karl Marx. Instructions for the Delegates of the Provisional General Council. The Different Questions

Appendix
Explanatory Notes
Name Index
Index of Periodicals
Index of Addresses and Geographical Names

Volume II. 1866-1868

Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 440 p.

This volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from the time of the First Congress of the International in September 1866 to September 1868, together with Documents issued by the General Council in the same period. The first volume contains the Council’s Minutes and other Documents from the foundation of the International in 1864 up to August 1866. This entire collection of Documents of the First International has been prepared by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to mark the Centenary of the foundation of the International.

Contents

Preface

The Minute Book of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (September 18, 1866 — September 1, 1868)

From the Manuscripts of Karl Marx

Karl Marx, Notes for an Undelivered Speech on Ireland

Documents of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association

International Working Men’s Association (Form of Application for Working Men Wishing To Join the International)
Balance Sheet of the International Working Men’s Association (from March 29th, 1865 to September 1, 1866)
Rules and Administrative Regulations of the International Working Men’s Association
The French Government and the International Association of Working Men
Poland (Programme of the Tea-Party and Public Meeting)
Central Council of the International Working Men’s Association. To the Miners and Iron-Workers of Great Britain
Balance Sheet of the International Working Men’s Association (from September 1st, 1866 to April 23rd, 1867)
Address of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association. To members and Affiliated Socities
Adresse du Conseil Général de L'Association Internationale des Traveilleurs. Aux Membres et aux Sociéties Affiliées et à tous les Traveilleurs
Third Annual Report of the International Working Men’s Association
The Annual Report of the American Secretary of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (September 1866 to August 27, 1867)
Balance Sheet for the Financial Year ending August 31st, 1867
The Fenian Prisoners at Manchester and the International Working Men’s Association
To the Secretaries and Members of the International Working Men’s Association (Questions on Labour Statistics)
To the Members of the International Working Men’s Association (Draft Programme for the Brussels Congress)
The Geneva Lock-Out. To the Editor of the Star
To the Trades’ Unionists of Great Britain and Ireland
The Fourth Annual Report of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association

Explanatory Notes
Name Index
Index of Periodicals
Index of Addresses and Geographical Names

Volume III. 1868-1870

Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 528 p.

This volume presents, for the first time in the language of the original, the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association — the First International—for the period between September 22, 1868 and July 12, 1870. They continue the 1864-68 Minutes, published in the two earlier volumes The General Council of the First International. 1864-1866. The London Conference, 1865. Minutes, and The General Council of the First International. 1866-1868. Minutes, Progress Publishers, Moscow. These documents are a valuable source for a study of the history of the International. They mirror the efforts of the General Council to develop the workers’ class consciousness and proletarian internationalism, its fight to get the world working-class movement to accept a socialist programme based on the ideological and organisational principles of Marxism as opposed to sectarianism and petty-bourgeois reformism. The Minutes also bring out the great part played by Marx in leading the first mass international organisation of revolutionary workers.

Contents

Preface

The Minute Book of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (September 22, 1868 — July 12, 1870)

From the Manuscripts of Karl Marx

Karl Marx. Remarks to the Programme and Rules of the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy

Documents of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association

Connections Between the International Working Men’s Association and English Working Men’s Organisations
Resolutions of the First and Third Congresses of the International Working Men’s Association
L’Association internationale des travail-leurs et “l’alliance internationale de la democratie socialiste”
Bericht Uber die knappschaftsvereine der Bergarbeiter in den Kohlenwerken Sachsens
The General Council of the International Working Men’s Association to the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy
the Belgian Massacres
Address to the National Labour Union of the United States
Report of the General Council on the Right of Inheritance
to the National Labour Union of the United States
Report of the General Council to the Fourth Annual Congress of the International Working Men’s Association
A Toutes Les Sections de L’Association Internationale Des Travailleurs
Address of the Land and Labour League to the Working Men and Women of Great Britain and Ireland
Address of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association to the New Democracy of New York
Le Conseil Général Au Conseil Fédéral de la Suisse Romande
Nécrologie
Главный Совет Международного Товарищества Рабочих — членам Комитета Русской Секции в Женеве
Decision du Conseil General. Le Conseil Général Au Comité Fédéral Romand
The Lock-Out of the Building Trades at Geneva
The Fifth Annual Congress of the International Working Men’s Association
Programme for the Mainz Congress of the International
Communication Confidentielle Aux Differentes Sections

Appendix
Explanatory Notes
Name Index
Index of Periodicals
Index of Addresses and Geographical Names

Volume IV. 1870-1871

Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 618 p.

This volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from 19 July 1870 to 24 October 1871, together with documents issued by the General Council in the same period. Among the latter is The Civil War in France, a summary of the experience of the Paris Commune written by Karl Marx on General Council instructions and addressed to all members of the International in Europe and the United States of America. This is the fourth of a five-volume collection of the Documents of the First International from its foundation in 1864. It was prepared by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to mark the Centenary of the foundation of the International.

Contents

Preface

The Minute Book of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (September 22, 1868 — July 12, 1870)

From the Manuscripts of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Meeting of Sub Committee of General Council, June 11, 1871
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Propositions to the General Council Concerning Preparations for the London Conference
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Propositions To Be Submitted to the Conference by the General Council
Meeting of Sub Committee, September 9, 1871
Meeting of Sub Committee, September 11, 1871

Documents of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association

First Address of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association on the Franco-Prussian War
Brief an Den Ausschuss Der Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei
Second Address of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association on the Franco-Prussian War
Au 6e Congrès Des Sections Belges De L’association Internationale Des Travailleurs
Al Consejo Federal De La Region Espanola De La Asociacion Internacional De Trabajadores
An Die Redaktion Des Volksstaat
General Council of the International Working Men’s Association
Resolution of the General Council Expelling Tolain From the J.W.M.A.
The Civil War in France. Address of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association
Letter Apropos of Jules Favre’s Circular
To the Times
Statement on Holyoake’s Letter
To the Editor of the Spectator (Resp. Examiner)
Statement on the Letters of Holyoake and Lucraft
Mr. Washburne, the American Ambassador in Paris
To the Belgian Federal Council of the International Working Men’s Association
Declaration on Nechayev’s Misuse of the Name of the International
Resolution on the Rules of the French Section of 1871

Volume V. 1871-1872

Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.C., C.P.S.U. — Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974. — 616 p.

This fifth and final volume contains the Minutes of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (the First International) from October 1871 to August 1872, together with other documents issued in the same period. It thus completes the collection of the Documents of the First International for the whole period of its work in London. Volume 1 covers the years 1864-1866, Volume 2, 1866-1868, Volume 3, 1868-1870 and Volume 4, 1870-1871. As with previous Volumes, all the documents are given here in their original languages, an English translation being provided where necessary in an Appendix.

Contents

Preface

The Minute Book of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association (October 31, 1871-End of August 1872)

Records of Engels’s Reports to the General Council Not Included in the Minutes

The Situation in Italy. Report by Engels at the General Council Meeting of November 7, 1871
The Position of the Danish Internationalists in the Agrarian Question. Report by Engels at the General Council Meeting of December 5, 1871
The Saragossa Congress. Report by Engels at the General Council Meeting of May 7, 1872
Relations Between the Irish Sections and the British Federal Council. Engels’s Record of His Report at the General Council Meeting of May 14, 1872
Minutes of the Sub-Committee (Executive Committee) June 28–August 28, 1872

From the Manuscripts of Karl Marx

American Split

Documents of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association

Statement From the General Council Concerning Cochrane’s Letter
Resolution on the Central Committee of the International’s Sections in the United States
On the French Section of 1871
Statement Sent by the General Council to the Editors of Frankfurter Zeitung Und Handelsblatt
Alla Redazione Del Proletario Italiano
Credentials for Giuseppe Boriani
Declaration Sent by the General Council to the Editors of Italian Newspapers Concerning Mazzini’s Articles About the International
Letter to the Editors of Gazzettino Rosa
Fictitious Splits in the International
Resolutions on the Split in the United States’ Federation Passed by the General Council of the I.W.A. in Its Sittings of 5th and 12th March,
1872
Resolutions of the Meeting Held To Celebrate the Anniversary of the Paris Commune
To Delegates of the National Spanish Congress Assembled at Saragossa
To the Saragossa Congress
Resolutions of the General Council on the Convocation and the Agenda of the Congress at The Hague
Statuts Généraux Et Règlements Administratifs De L’association Internationale Des Travailleurs
The General Council’s Reply to the Protest of the Jura Federation at the Convening of a Congress at The Hague
The General Council to All the Members of the International Working Men’s Association
To Spanish Sections of the International Working Men’s Association
The General Council to the New Madrid Federation
To Italian Sections Concerning the Rimini Conference
Report of the General Council to the Fifth Annual Congress of the International Working Men’s Association, Held at The Hague
Rapport Fait Au Congrès De La Haye Au Nom Du Conseil Général, Sur L’alliance De La Démocratie Socialiste

Appendix
Explanatory Notes
Name Index
Index of Periodicals
Index of Addresses and Geographical Names